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5 Guildhall Cottages High Street Laxfield Suffolk IP13 8DU

DC/22/00318Notification: Works to Trees in Con AreaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 18 February 2022

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for works to trees in a Conservation Area: Fell 1no Apple in front garden and reduce height of 1no Pear in front garden by 50%

Received
20 January 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Stradbroke & Laxfield
  1. Received20 Jan
  2. Validated20 Jan
  3. Consult.10 Feb
  4. Target3 Mar
  5. Decided18 Feb

Decided in 29 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 5 Guildhall Cottages High Street Laxfield Suffolk IP13 8DU. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,921 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 3 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Laxfield conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Stradbroke & Laxfield. We hold 1,031 applications in total for the IP13 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at Babergh District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
IP13 8DU
Application type
Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Laxfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 January 2022
Consultation expiry
10 February 2022
Consultation start
20 January 2022
Consultation end
10 February 2022
Last date for comments
10 February 2022
Target decision date
3 March 2022
Permission expires
18 February 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
3
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Laxfield
  • Listed building: Grade II: Guildhall CottagesOn or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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